A North Carolina middle school teacher said that a comment on a student’s paper was just his way of relating to his students.
On the homework assignment, he wrote, “-20% for being a LOSER.” KSFY-TV reports that the comment was made twice, and even after the student’s mother complained to the school that the teacher was “bullying” her daughter.
Some parents …

Someone please tell me this is some kind of sick joke!
Former Governor Sarah Palin is reportedly trying to find a network to carry a reality show about life in Alaska, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

The next time I hear a Republican lambaste a Democrat for wasting time on something unimportant, I’m going to refer to them to the story of a state representative from Greenville, South Carolina, who has taken it upon himself to make curling the Official Winter Olympic Sport of South Carolina.
Not just the “Official Olympic sport,” but the Official Winter Olympic …

Yes, the tradition of having the sign of a cross placed on your forehead on Ash Wednesday continues to fool people.
Even news anchors.
A Sky News anchor was forced to offer an apology for noting a “large bruise” on the forehead of Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday.  Biden, a Roman Catholic, belongs to one of several Christian denominations that marks …

Poor NBC just cannot catch a break from its late night lineup. As if the trouble between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien wasn’t enough, the network is facing a new problem over Black History Month, and it was propelled into the spotlight by a band member from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
The show’s drummer walked into the NBC Commisary, …

Man’s quest to be star of a reality television show has gone entirely too far.
In Pennsylvania, a man was arrested and jailed after calling a local television station to invite them along to cover him robbing a bank.
I am not making this up.

The other day, I mentioned the asinine comments made by my state’s lieutenant governor, remarks that compared providing free and reduced lunches to underprivileged children to feeding stray animals.
The remarks made by Andre Bauer, predictably, have caused a political firestorm here in South Carolina, where our current governor’s affair with a woman in Argentina should have been more than enough …

One of these days, I’m going to start a list of Things I Just Don’t Get. Somewhere on that list, which will probably be done in no specific order, will be “Hot Sauce.”
This would include Buffalo Sauce, which people lather over an otherwise perfectly good chicken wing to make it an almost painful thing to eat. (Seriously, is …

Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
An adult film star who posted an online video claiming she was upset about testing positive for HIV and had subsequently set out to “destroy the world” because no cure for AIDS had as yet been found has now changed her story.

The Information Age is filled with staggering amounts of information. Some good, some bad. It’s amazing how much you can find about people, places and things.
For instance, I just found a new word that relates to exactly how much information is being consumed on a daily basis.
Ready for this one? Enter the zettabyte. And not just …

This week’s edition of Monday’s Morals got a few more comments than normal, likely because the story it featured was just so outlandish.
A judge in Florida has ruled that a self-described neo-Nazi who stands accused of murder will undergo a daily makeover so that potentially-offensive tattoos can be covered up in makeup by a cosmetologist.  The said cosmetologist will be …

If there’s a list of unusual court maneuvers of 2009, it probably was created earlier this month, so it probably didn’t include the latest twist in the David Letterman extortion plot.
In court papers filed earlier this week, the lawyer of the CBS producer accused of trying to blackmail the late night host about sexual secrets is drawing from the Tiger …

There’s a new perfume out there that some of your friends may one day wear. Personally, I just don’t see the appeal.
It’s designed to do what I suppose all perfumes are supposed to do: to draw men in. But something about the idea of this…well, it doesn’t do anything for me.
But then, maybe that’s because I wouldn’t …

You know what they say about payback. This one might go a few slots beyond that.
A best man from a wedding, who claims to be a previous victim of the groom’s pranks, has secretly rigged the newlyweds’ bed to automatically broadcast tweets every time the couple has sex. 

There’s a major update to the sketchy details of a crucification crisis in a Massachusetts school.
The story began when the father of an eight-year-old special needs student approached local media claiming that his son was sent home from school and ordered to undergo psychological testing over his answer to a simple question: “What did you do over Thanksgiving break?” …

If you’re a sports fan, you already know about this.  If you’re not, you will still get a laugh out of it.
I am not a sports fan. When I was a kid, I always tried to be the referee when I played with the other guys in my neighborhood, not because I knew all of the rules, but because …

You just can’t make stuff like this up!
A farming trip for geese on farmland in Scotland took an unexpected twist when a hunting dog managed to shoot two hunters.
Oh, yes: you did read that right!

This morning on Today, the couple accused of crashing the president’s first state dinner appeared to give their side of the story.
At least, that was what Today expected.  At one point, Matt Lauer asked Tareq Salahi about a phone call between the two of them prior to the appearance:
“We spoke in the middle of the day and you led me …